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Diamond Cave, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72641. It stands on Panther Creek. The Survey maps it on the Parthenon quadrangle.

Diamond Cave within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

56 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Diamond Cave between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,589 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism9
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresBuffalo National RiverBISHOP FIRE
6 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 May 2009Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 May 2005Railroad operations and maintenance55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2016Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBuffalo National RiverBUZZARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Diamond Cave: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ozark Rock Co.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkStonePast Producer
Blue BluffLead, ZincPast Producer
Boulder ProspectLeadPast Producer
Hudson PropertyLead, ZincPast Producer
JackpotLead, ZincPast Producer
Panther CreekZincPast Producer
J A LowrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Newton County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pruitt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diamond Cave in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2017Thunderstorm WindDiamond Cave$10,000A barge had part of its roof blown off.
June 2020Flash FloodDiamond Cave-Water was over the road on Highway 327, 4 miles southeast of Jasper with heavy rain causing a landslide. The landslide let to trees blocking the road.

Every storm recorded in Newton County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Parthenon2.3 miles13
Jasper2.9 miles13
Mount Sherman3.4 miles14
Gum Springs4.7 miles13
Flatwoods5.4 miles13
Plumlee (historical)5.4 miles14
Murray5.7 miles9
Wayton5.7 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122549370The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 71383. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.